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Appendix

Procurement of major weapons systems in Europe pre-2020

Category Europe Russia Comment
MBT 0 2,300
IFV 452 3,580 Russian production goals
APC 2,171 4,200
Some Estimate based on Russian modernisation goals
Drones 85
Many Estimate based on Russian modernisation goals
Anti-tank systems 0 The production of the IAI Searcher and other tactical drones
1,050 continues, but no reliable numbers are available
Artillery systems 24 236 There are no reliable numbers available, but Russia is
Combat aircraft 731 taking delivery of ATGMs for new helicopters and armoured
0 vehicles
AWACS, ELINT planes and 23 Estimate based on Russian modernisation goals
tankers 15 More planes will be ordered before 2020, RUS contracts
39 fulfilled by 2015/2017
Strategic bombers 0 237 The next generation of Russian AWACS and electronic
reconnaissance aircraft is under development, but will not
Heavy transport aircraft 157 be introduced in larger numbers before 2020

More planes will be ordered before 2020, RUS contracts
fulfilled by 2015

Combat helicopters 161

Transport and multi-purpose 523 312
helicopters

Iskander, Bulawa, Yars in delivery, but no reliable numbers

Ballistic missiles 0 100-400 available. The planned 40 strategic missiles per year

seems unsustainable

Only includes known S-300 and S-400 orders; additional

Air defence systems 0 30 Tor, Buk, and S-400 are being delivered, but no reliable

number is available

The Russian “Storm” class CVA/CVN is still on the drawing

Aircraft carriers 2 0 board and will not be completed before 2020 (if

construction has even started at that time)

Cruisers & destroyers 22 0 12 large missile destroyers planned, but construction is
likely to start in 2023 at the earliest (1)

Frigates & corvettes 0 20
Ballistic missile submarines 0
Nuclear submarines 12 8
Diesel-electric submarines 14
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October 2015These figures include only the acquisition of new equipment, not the modernisation of old equipment or the transfer
of second-hand equipment within one of the blocs (there is a lot of acquisition by Eastern European states of sec-
ond-hand equipment that has been phased out by Western European states). All data – if not stated otherwise – is fromECFR/143
The Military Balance 2015.

(1) “New-generation missile destroyer under development in Russia”, TASS, 21 October 2014, available at tass.ru/
en/russia/755539.

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